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decent showing. Why advertise such an apparent 

 deficiency? 



Nor have I fallen in love with the Burbank 

 "Rainbow" corn, with its streaks of red and white 

 and pink, for it adds no color note of value, and 

 has no special beauty of form. If one tries out 

 garden freaks by William Morris's prescription, 

 the case of the corn will be quite easily settled. 

 Morris said, "Have nothing about you that you do 

 not know to be useful or beheve to be beautiful." 

 There is certainly no use in this rainbow stufiF, and 

 it is not beautiful to my eyes; therefore it will not 

 be in the garden again. 



The expensive Colorado blue spruce is another 

 of these over-loud growths that needs at least to 

 be used with great care. I have seen it in its 

 native Rocky Mountain habitat, along river 

 slopes, where it was the exclamation point in a 

 mass of the deep green Engelmann spruce, and 

 there it was very beautiful. I have also seen it in 

 well-considered and rather extensive evergreen 

 plantings in the east, used also as a color point, for 

 emphasis and shading, and again it was beautiful. 

 But planted as it frequently is, as the chief feature 

 of a lawn, standing out alone and away from other 

 evergreens, it advertises only the desire of the 

 gardener to show that he is willing to wear a red 



